Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/30/2008
Jason Ohler : Education and Technology : @ Work with Teachers
Mahara is an open source e-portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities. Mahara is designed to provide users with the tools to demonstrate their life-long learning, skills and development over time to selected audiences.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/22/2008
KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion!
The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It
The Future of the Internet explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. As tethered appliances and applications eclipse the PC, the very nature of the Internet—its “generativity,” or innovative character—is at risk.
ESEA Title II, Part D - Enhancing Education through Technology - Title II Part D
MT OPI page for TitleIID
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/19/2008
Toward A Definition of 21st-Century Literacies - Annotated
Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy.
- Twenty-first century readers and writers need to
The purpose of this little script is to allow a Twitter user to "follow" a bunch of other Twitter users in one fell swoop—a Twitter friend list generator if you will. Dembo made me do it.
VUVOX - slideshows, photo, video and music sharing, Myspace codes
digital collage
Thursday, April 17, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/18/2008
This tutorial is brought to you by the California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 Team as a professional development program.
Information and Community for Teachers in Multi-User Virtual Environments
SimTeach is a place for university instructional designers, faculty and administrators to find information and to share their own experiences designing, teaching and administering classes in immersive environments.Arp Home Page K-12 Education Staff Development Education Content
Missoulian: Taking a stab: Inland Empire Divisional Qualifiers fencing tourney coming to Missoula
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/17/2008
Company that provides video streaming services to cities/counties/schools
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/16/2008
Community Technology Centers' Network
The Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet) is a national membership network of community technology centers (CTCs) and other non-profits, united in their commitment to provide technology access and education to underserved communities. CTCNet works through the CTC Network to provide resources and advocacy to improve the quality and sustainability of CTCs.
Dangerously Irrelevant: Dear Jon letter (a.k.a. The world doesn't care about you)
Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers on digital Children. We the teachers are the immigrants and our students are the natives, brought up in a world where there has always been computers and the internet, where information is always instant and varied.
Monday, April 14, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/15/2008
Eight Teenagers Charged in Internet Beating Have Their Day on the Web - New York Times - Annotated
- he hoped that the attention the case had drawn would raise awareness about the Internet’s power to desensitize young people to violence.
- And the 1,800-plus comments generally followed a similar line: “its not about youtube and myspace!! its about those 8 freakin’ teenagers!!”
- authorities say the attackers intended to use the attack to become Internet celebrities.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/13/2008
Assessing Technological Literacy « Educational Insanity - Annotated
- I also wonder, will “technological literacy” mean something different in 2012 than it does today? If so, how do we develop measures of something unknown?
Friday, April 11, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/12/2008
Models for Change | Center for Digital Democracy - Annotated
The creation of a more robust electronic environment that is economically sustainable and contains independent sources for civic, cultural and socially conscious content will pave the way for a more democratic society both on and offline. Organizations and models that are making it a priority to shape our digital future are already emerging.
- Freecycle is an amazing community. My wife uses this frequently. - post by mjclausen
- A web service for sharing and exploring information about neighborhoods, serves 63 cities, and 3217 neighborhoods in the U.S.
- Could be a neat project for schools/classes to develop their own community info. - post by mjclausen
- Using the latest technology, Avaaz.org empowers ordinary people from every corner of the globe to directly contact key global decision-makers, corporations and the media.
- Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.
- The new free wiki encyclopedia of arguments and debates. As a "wiki", it enables anyone (you included) to easily present and organize the unique arguments made by third-party sources (ie. by scholars, experts, leaders,...) on both sides of a debate.
- The "citizen's encyclopedia on Congress" that anyone— including you—can edit.
- Gaming
- Find out about the pollution problems in your community and learn who is responsible.
- ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
- An international organization - led by youth and empowered by technology. TakingITGlobal connects youth around the world to find inspiration, information and get involved in improving their local and global communities.
- Digital Youth, UC Berkeley
This project works to address this gap with a targeted set of ethnographic investigations into three emergent modes of informal learning that young people are practicing using new media technologies: communication, learning, and play. - Institute for Politics Democracy & the Internet, George Washington University
Its mission is to promote the use of the Internet and new communication technologies in politics to enhance democratic values, encourage citizen participation and improve governance, at home and abroad; in short, to “democratize democracy.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Friday, April 04, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/05/2008
Department for Children, Schools and Families : Byron Review
tags: internet safety, professional development, onlinesafety
Learning.now Strengthening Student Resilience to Online Risks
tags: internet safety, learning.now, onlinesafety
CIPA: Key Issues for Decision Makers
tags: internet safety, cipa, filtering, censoring
Thursday, April 03, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/04/2008
Colorado Filtering Clearinghouse - CIPA Compliance Guide
tags: cipa, internet safety, internet_filter, onlinesafety
Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Teacher e-mails made public
tags: email, privacy, professional development, tech_and_society
Almost a year after asking for the documents, a Vesper man's request will be honored for e-mail messages from the workstations of five Wisconsin Rapids School District teachers.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/03/2008
tags: American history, curriculum, history, loc, social studies
American Memory project from the Library of Congress
tags: art, asia, culture, curriculum, social studies
Asian Odyssey is a three-year project (June 2002 - June 2005) to advance the study of Asian Art and culture in K-12 curriculum by creating a model curriculum and program that is accessible to a national and international audiences via distance learning and the museum's web site.
tags: English, curriculum, language arts, strategies, teaching
English Teacher Resources: Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies
ESR - Educators for Social Responsibility
tags: curriculum, social studies
As a leading national center for teaching about conflict and social responsibility, ESR has been providing effective and credible resources for teaching important current issues for over 20 years. Our Online Teacher Center provides teaching resources on a range of issues related to international security, conflict resolution, peacemaking, violence prevention, and social responsibility.
tags: curriculum, foreign language, world language
scroll down for language links
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
diigo bookmarks 04/02/2008
turns text upside down and backwards
tags: curriculum, foreign language, language acquisition, world language
KnowledgeWorks - Map of Future Forces Affecting Education - Home
tags: education, future, learning, politics, tech_and_society, technology, transforming_teaching, web2.0
Cable in the Classroom - Threshold Magazine - Spring 2008
tags: 2008, tech_and_society, threshold, transforming_teaching
Global Warming Skeptic Organizations
tags: climate change, skeptic, special interest groups
List of prominent groups organized to refute the science of global warming
World Language Learning Materials
tags: curriculum, foreign language, materials, world language
Today's spies find secrets in plain sight - USATODAY.com Annotated
tags: information, internet safety, onlinesafety, privacy
Agencies dedicated to covert information are increasinly turning to open networks.
ed4wb » Education for Well-being
tags: ed4wb, education, transforming_teaching, video
Education as if people and the planet mattered